Business process technology : a unified view on business processes, workflows and enterprise applications

Businesses consist of processes and strive for excellence in business processes. There are different communities addressing business processes, each with its own objectives, tools and terminology-business process reengineering, business process modeling, business process management, workflow execution, and even current strands of service oriented architecture. In concrete business process projects, we are still faced again and again with similar questions: Which decomposition mechanism to use? Which is the correct granularity for business process activities? Which implementing technology is optimal in a given situation? This book offers an approach to the systematization of the field. It provides a landscape of rationales and concepts for business process tools and technologies. The message of the book is that currently emerging integrated business process platforms are the enabling technology of the future, which will allow us to use the huge potential for automation in today's enterprises